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Four Ways To Help You Build a Better 2024
Put your energy where it matters most.
Dear Reader,
My son has a habit of telling me, “It’s not that deep, Mom.”
When setting goals for the New Year, I’d have to agree. It’s not that deep.
What is “deep”? The inner resources needed to sustain those goals.
On the podcast this week, you’ll learn four practices to develop the inner resources you need to make 2024 better.
1. Stress Better: Stress is part of living a values-driven life. These science-backed mindsets will reduce the wear and tear of stress on your mind and body.
- Find the purpose: Ask yourself, how does this challenge contribute to my growth or goals?
- Practice self-acceptance: What aspects of my life can I control, and what can I accept as it is?
- Set realistic expectations: What is achievable this year, given my current resources and constraints?
2. Reset Your Dopamine Balance: "We are cacti living in a rainforest of dopamine,” according to Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke. Get your brain back in balance:
- Do a dopamine fast: take time off your most addictive substance or behavior.
- Structure your environment: put time, space, or categorical barriers in place to reduce your access to your addictive substance or behavior.
- Choose Pain: Reset your dopamine balance with cold plunges, intense exercise, and breathwork.
3. Tend To Your Relationships: We can always do a better job with our relationships.
- Get to know 5 things that DRAIN your relationships.
- Practice small acts of compassion.
- Tend to the relationships that matter most to you.
4. Take Care of Your Health: There is a difference between being “healthy” and caring for your health. We all move in and out of different forms of health over our lifetime.
- Nourish the form you are in right now with nutrition, movement, sleep, and rest.
- Join me for 21 days of health on Instagram Stories!
I know. It’s not that deep.
Many blessings and more good to come.
Something to write about:
What inner resources did you develop well in 2023? How do you want to use them in 2024?
Dr. Diana Hill
Psychological Flexibility Guide
Learn evidenced-backed, contemplative ideas and practices to help you develop your psychological flexibility. If you want to put your efforts into what you care most about, this twice-monthly Wise Effort newsletter is for you. Join the Wise Effort newsletter community!